Marley (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 95 | Rotten: 5
Kevin Macdonald's exhaustive, evenhanded portrait of Bob Marley offers electrifying concert footage and fascinating insights into reggae's greatest star.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 2
Kevin Macdonald's exhaustive, evenhanded portrait of Bob Marley offers electrifying concert footage and fascinating insights into reggae's greatest star.
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Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. -- (C) Official Site
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Marley is highly watchable, finely crafted legacy preservation - and it's either a white-washed sham or awesomely shaded.
Top CriticIt wants to show us the man behind the famous dreads, beatific smile and durable songs of love, hope and longing. In this task it succeeds admirably.
Sprinkled with riffs, concert footage and home videos, the family-authorized documentary does what the artist usually did: When in doubt, return to the beat.
Macdonald supplies some interesting and novel details about the musician's life and art, though the movie's narrative arc and documentary methods are totally predictable.
Bob Marley wrote the same song about 8,000 times, and the documentary "Marley" makes sure to include each version.
This is a life story worth telling, and "Marley" does it much justice. Marley may or may not have been perfect, but he was certainly fascinating.
Comprehensive docu on iconic reggae musician.
Serve[s] its many audiences, doing so without succumbing to faults that so easily could have plagued the film. Well crafted, with a soundtrack that's drawn from the astounding career of its subject, MARLEY joins the pantheon of top-notch music films.
Concert footage includes some of Bob Marley's best-known songs, "Get Up, Stand Up," "I Shot the Sheriff," "No Woman, No Cry," "One Love" and many others. Interviews with people who knew Marley at different times of his life provide a lot of color.
So far, the definitive biopic documentary on the elusive Bob Marley.
Viewers will walk away knowing Bob Marley in much more intimate and accurate fashion, rather than the specious, superficial or incomplete picture they may have had before.
A truly human portrait of an extraordinary life.
You need not don a red, yellow, and green T-shirt to appreciate the film.
This is as full a picture of Marley as is likely to emerge.
A wonderfully-revealing, warts-and-all tribute to the human spirit of a Rasta rock god!
Outstanding, thorough, often moving documentary about the tragically short life and huge influence of musician Bob Marley... by any fair measure, a great music documentary.
Macdonald and his editor have built a collage that really communicates in vibrant, cinematic language. Of course, it is about a musician, so rightly, it is wall to wall music
[Kevin McDonald's] vast account of the music legend's life ambles along with the laid-back vibe of a reggae king.
Bob Marley's short but amazing life
Similarly, with 'Marley,' Macdonald provides some much needed context to the songs that have sold millions of copies throughout the world.
Marley aficionados will be astonished by the depth and breadth of the documentary, which portrays the musician known as Tuff Gong as both a fallible man and an untouchable legend.
Audience Reviews for Marley
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- Bob Marley: I catch ya!
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- Bob Marley: Love, prosperity, unity, Jah..Rastafari.
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- Bob Marley: Music goes ba ba ba ba, reggae music has 3 beats and then you imagine the 4th.
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- Bob Marley: One love.
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- Bob Marley: Let's get together and feel all right.
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- Bob Marley: My life is a people.
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